At an Awards Ceremony hosted at J W Marriott, Mumbai, India on 10 October 2005, Frost & Sullivan announced SecureSynergy as winner of two of its prestigious awards:

:: Frost & Sullivan Market Leadership Award for Managed AntiVirus Market, 2005
:: Frost & Sullivan Customer Service Leadership Award for Managed Security Market, 2005

Anil Menon - CEO, SecureSynergy

Frost & Sullivan Awards are conferred each year upon companies that have demonstrated excellence, leadership, and outstanding achievements within their industry. The key measurement criteria employed in the benchmarking study and judging process were based on actual market performance indicators for calendar year 2004. These include revenue growth, market share and growth in market share, leadership in product innovation, breadth of products and solutions, major customer acquisitions, and business and market strategy.

Alok Shende, Director of ICT Practice at Frost & Sullivan said, "2004 was a challenging year with competition stiffer than ever, coupled with emerging disruptive technologies. ICT companies across India have had to innovate and reinvent to rise to the challenge and increase their value proposition to stay on top of the game." He added, "The recipients of the Frost & Sullivan India Technology Awards 2005 indeed represent the best in their class. Each of these outstanding recipients has demonstrated significant growth and leadership in their respective market segments... A common factor across all the award recipients is that they have significantly contributed to growing the industry either by bringing in strong new value propositions to the market or by developing new market segments".

Conferring the award Frost & Sullivan said, "SecureSynergy has displayed excellence in all areas of the Market leadership process, including the identification of market challenges, drivers and restraints, as well as strategy development and methods of addressing these market dynamics" Frost & Sullivan added, "SecureSynergy has demonstrated excellence in Customer Service Leadership within its industry. The company has shown tremendous responsiveness to customer needs and has continually focused on long and short-term customer profitability goals. In addition, SecureSynergy demonstrated flexibility in tailoring their product offerings to suit customer businesses."

On receiving the awards Anil Menon, CEO, SecureSynergy said that Frost & Sullivan's recognition of SecureSynergy as the Industry leader in the Managed Security market validated the company's technology and service delivery model, corroborating their pioneering role in bringing about a paradigm shift in the Industry's acceptance of off-site managed security. He further added, "The awards are a testament to our determination in raising the industry bar to protect our customers with pushing-the-envelope technologies". Commenting on SecureSynergy's unrivalled customer service leadership he said, "Our BS7799 certification in managing customer security, consumer-focused channel organisation, and 24x7 NOC and support organisation demonstrates our complete dedication to the core values of customer service".

Earlier, during the event, SecureSynergy spokesperson Anita Kukreja said, "According to Frost & Sullivan research for Managed Security Service Market category, SecureSynergy emerged as the single largest player in the Managed Antivirus market. Additionally, SecureSynergy has carved out a significant place for itself in the managed security market due to its focus on excellence in customer service delivery".

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